Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to John Hawley (@warty9), a Linux kernel hacker, an open-source enthusiast and someone who's able to answer questions about open-source at VMWare.

• The Spring Live registration page
• My blog announcing Spring Live
• John Hawley (@warty9) on Twitter
• Spring Tips: Java 14 (Can Your Java Do This?)
• the VMWare Open-Source Blog

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 89 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Support for gracefully shutting down the embedded web server
• Support for customizing the layers when building a layered jar with Maven
• Support for R2DBC
• Auto-configuration for Spring Integration's RSocket support
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, we're going to look at the new features in Java 14 and their use in building Spring Boot-based applications.

Speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

To get started, we need to use the latest and greatest version of Java, Java 14, which isn't - just yet - released yet. It is due to be shipped in early 2020. You can download early access releases on Java.net. You might also consider using SDKManager (sdk), which makes installing new JVM editions a trivial matter indeed.

Remember, there are new Java releases every 6 months. These new releases are usable in production but are only supported for the six months between one release and the next. Every now and then, the Java project also releases a long-term support (LTS) release. That release is currently Java 11. Java 14 is only a viable target for production until Java 15 comes out. And indeed, we're going to look at a lot of preview features…

Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the GA release of 2.4.2.

In this release, along with some bug fixes, we primarily focused on the server/client-side performance improvements on the stream management.

The REST layer in Spring Cloud Data Flow server is refactored to accommodate better pagination and performance when retrieving the runtime application statuses of streams. In addition to that, the SCDF dashboard pages are re-worked based on these changes. The Runtime Applications page in the Dashboard has a new layout where the runtime applications are grouped by their streams. The Streams page is also refactored to efficiently retrieve the stream status, application…

On behalf of the community, I'd like to announce the availability of the Spring Data Neumann M4 milestone release. It is planned to be the last milestone before the first release candidate.

Neumann M4 ships with 69 tickets fixed. It is built on top of Spring Framework 5.2.4 and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3.0 M3 for your convenience.

Finally, here are links to the reference documentation, changelogs, and artifacts of the individual project releases:

• Spring Data Commons 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.0 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.3 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.2 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.0 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

I’m pleased to announce the third milestone for Spring Integration 5.3.

This release ships several bug fixes, a bunch of new features and improvements and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3 M3 in the near future.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.3.0.M3"

The most important new features are:

• Reactive transactions support. The ReactiveTransactionManager can now be configured for endpoints which produces reactive type for replies or just implement ReactiveMessageHandler.

• ReactiveRequestHandlerAdvice - a MethodInterceptor for message handlers producing a Mono as a payload for reply. The BiFunction<Message<?>, Mono<?>, Publisher<?>> customized is applied for the returned Mono via Mono.transform(Function) operator to add some aspects into a produced result. Typically it is used for timeout, retry, tag options applied for the remote reactive requests, e.g. Webflux or RSocket.

• Kotlin DSL. As we promised before, we have merged spring-integration-kotlin-dsl project into core one for general availability and for further possible improvements which are possible only with direct access to core Spring Integration classes. See org.springframework.integration.dsl.IntegrationFlowDsl.kt for more information.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring installment of This Week in Spring! My family and I are basically self-quarantined for the meanwhile, trying to avoid the terrifying COVID-19 pandemic that's ravaging communities around the world. This pandemic is bad because it's leaving countless thousands of sick or dead. It also means that it's harder for me to get on planes to meet people.

I'm disappointed I won't be able to - and haven't been able to - make these shows. But, there's always something to be learned and this week is no different. It was a busy week in Spring indeed! Let's get…

Time: approximately 15 mins.

In the previous article, you saw how Spring Boot simplifies the task of writing RSocket servers. But what about RSocket clients? In this article, you’ll learn how to write your own RSocket client and then use this new client to send request-response messages to your RSocket-server. Let’s get started!

This tutorial uses the Linux shell. For details on how to run a Linux shell on Windows, see this Microsoft tutorial.

Step 1: Create A New Spring Boot Project For Your Client

It’s fun to write your own code, so for your RSocket client let’s start from scratch.

If this is too much hassle for you, or you don’t have the time right now, then you can find the code in the rsocket-client folder of the demo code repository.

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On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.1.9.RELEASE, 2.2.3.RELEASE and 2.3.0.RC1.

SSDG 2.1.9.RELEASE and 2.2.3.RELEASE are available from Maven Central.

SSDG 2.3.0.RC1 is available from the Spring Milestone Repository.

SSDG 2.1.9.RELEASE builds on Spring Framework 5.1.14.RELEASE, Spring Data Lovelace-SR16, Spring Session Bean-SR9, Apache Geode 1.6.0 and Pivotal GemFire 9.5.4.

SSDG 2.2.3.RELEASE builds on Spring Framework 5.2.4.RELEASE, Spring Data Moore-SR…